It's important that you see how these operatives work. Throw enough manure against the wall and somthing will stick, right? Sarcasm aside, this is the greatest threat to America's long term future. These un-fire-able [my word, but you knew that] tenured hatemongers are shaping our young impressionable, maleable minds. Of course we know what the IMMEDIATE THREATS are, but this is just as serious (if not more so).Here is the article, click and read the whole thing. And if you are unfamiliar with this real and dangerous crisis, click on my "Hijacking America's Educational System" and open your eyes..............you'll never see it in the twisted Mainstream Media (and if I may say Jacob Gershman has been covering the ongoing Crisis at Columbia deftly).

Massad Says Peers Aided 'Witch-Hunters'
Crisis At Columbia

BY JACOB GERSHMAN - Staff Reporter of the Sun
April 4, 2005

The Columbia University scholar Joseph Massad told a
committee of professors investigating his classroom conduct that the
university's top administrators treated him "with such contempt" and
collaborated with "witch-hunters."

In a lengthy and bitter statement he delivered to an investigative
committee last month, about two weeks before it issued its report, Mr.
Massad accused the Columbia president, Lee Bollinger, and the rest of
the administration of abandoning him in the face of accusations that he
intimidated Jewish students.

"I am utterly disillusioned with a university administration that
treats its faculty with such contempt and am hoping against hope that
the faculty will rise to the task before them and force President
Bollinger to reverse this perilous course on which he has taken
Columbia's faculty and students," he stated.

Mr. Massad's statement appears on censoringthought.org, a Web site
whose authors are strongly supportive of the assistant professor in
Columbia's Department of Middle East and Asian Language and Culture.
The statement is dated March 14, which was 16 days before the committee
released its report.

In his testimony, Mr. Massad described himself as a victim of
intimidation and portrayed the administration as having a callous
attitude toward his plight.

Mr. Massad, whose expertise is in modern Arab politics and
intellectual history, first taught at Columbia in the fall of 1999 and,
following a year's sabbatical, is undergoing his fifth-year review. His
relentless criticisms of Israel have made him one of the most
polarizing figures on campus.

He accused Mr. Bollinger of prejudging him and other accused faculty
and for giving "legitimacy" to the documentary video "Columbia
Unbecoming," which featured accounts of Jewish students describing a
climate of fear in Columbia classrooms. Mr. Bollinger appointed the
committee after press reports came out about the film, which was
financed by the David Project, a nonprofit advocacy group based in
Boston.

"That the Columbia University administration acted as a collaborator
with the witch-hunters instead of defending me and offering itself as a
refuge from rightwing McCarthyism has been a cause of grave personal
and professional disappointment to me," Mr. Massad stated.

He criticized the administration for not contacting him after he
announced he would no longer teach one of his courses, "Palestinian and
Israeli Politics and Societies." Mr. Bollinger and other top
administrators never "expressed any discomfort that I, a Columbia
faculty member, was canceling one of my courses because of
intimidation," he said.

Citing statements Mr. Bollinger made to press outlets, Mr. Massad
accused him of political bias and of "making an academic judgment about
me that is based not on my scholarship or pedagogy but on my politics
and even my nationality."

Columbia's president betrayed his political bias, Mr. Massad
alleged, when he came out against an anti-Israel petition that
circulated around campus in 2002. Mr. Bollinger described the petition,
which called on Columbia to divest its holdings from companies that
sell military hardware to Israel, "grotesque and offensive."

Mr. Bollinger, in a speech he delivered March 23 before the
Association of the Bar of the City of New York, said Columbia would not
"punish professors or students for the speech or ideas they express as
part of public debate about public issues." He also said the university
"should not elevate our autonomy as individual faculty above all other
values" or accept "transgressions" among faculty members "without
consequences."

Mr. Massad, in the statement on the Web site, also said he was "very
concerned" about the role of a prominent First Amendment lawyer, Floyd
Abrams, as an adviser to the committee. Mr. Abrams, Mr. Massad said, is
"publicly identified with pro-Israeli politics and activism."

The faculty committee in its report found that Mr. Massad "exceeded
commonly accepted bounds" of teaching when in the spring of 2002 he
purportedly threatened to expel one of his students, Deena Shanker,
from his classroom after she defended Israeli military action. The
incident was the one action alleged by students that the committee
found to constitute intimidation. In his statement, Mr. Massad
vehemently denied that the incident took place.

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It's important that you see how these operatives work. Throw enough manure against the wall and somthing will stick, right? Sarcasm aside, this is the greatest threat to America's long term future. These un-fire-able [my word, but you knew that] tenured hatemongers are shaping our young impressionable, maleable minds. Of course we know what the IMMEDIATE THREATS are, but this is just as serious (if not more so).Here is the article, click and read the whole thing. And if you are unfamiliar with this real and dangerous crisis, click on my "Hijacking America's Educational System" and open your eyes..............you'll never see it in the twisted Mainstream Media (and if I may say Jacob Gershman has been covering the ongoing Crisis at Columbia deftly).

Massad Says Peers Aided 'Witch-Hunters'
Crisis At Columbia

BY JACOB GERSHMAN - Staff Reporter of the Sun
April 4, 2005

The Columbia University scholar Joseph Massad told a
committee of professors investigating his classroom conduct that the
university's top administrators treated him "with such contempt" and
collaborated with "witch-hunters."

In a lengthy and bitter statement he delivered to an investigative
committee last month, about two weeks before it issued its report, Mr.
Massad accused the Columbia president, Lee Bollinger, and the rest of
the administration of abandoning him in the face of accusations that he
intimidated Jewish students.

"I am utterly disillusioned with a university administration that
treats its faculty with such contempt and am hoping against hope that
the faculty will rise to the task before them and force President
Bollinger to reverse this perilous course on which he has taken
Columbia's faculty and students," he stated.

Mr. Massad's statement appears on censoringthought.org, a Web site
whose authors are strongly supportive of the assistant professor in
Columbia's Department of Middle East and Asian Language and Culture.
The statement is dated March 14, which was 16 days before the committee
released its report.

In his testimony, Mr. Massad described himself as a victim of
intimidation and portrayed the administration as having a callous
attitude toward his plight.

Mr. Massad, whose expertise is in modern Arab politics and
intellectual history, first taught at Columbia in the fall of 1999 and,
following a year's sabbatical, is undergoing his fifth-year review. His
relentless criticisms of Israel have made him one of the most
polarizing figures on campus.

He accused Mr. Bollinger of prejudging him and other accused faculty
and for giving "legitimacy" to the documentary video "Columbia
Unbecoming," which featured accounts of Jewish students describing a
climate of fear in Columbia classrooms. Mr. Bollinger appointed the
committee after press reports came out about the film, which was
financed by the David Project, a nonprofit advocacy group based in
Boston.

"That the Columbia University administration acted as a collaborator
with the witch-hunters instead of defending me and offering itself as a
refuge from rightwing McCarthyism has been a cause of grave personal
and professional disappointment to me," Mr. Massad stated.

He criticized the administration for not contacting him after he
announced he would no longer teach one of his courses, "Palestinian and
Israeli Politics and Societies." Mr. Bollinger and other top
administrators never "expressed any discomfort that I, a Columbia
faculty member, was canceling one of my courses because of
intimidation," he said.

Citing statements Mr. Bollinger made to press outlets, Mr. Massad
accused him of political bias and of "making an academic judgment about
me that is based not on my scholarship or pedagogy but on my politics
and even my nationality."

Columbia's president betrayed his political bias, Mr. Massad
alleged, when he came out against an anti-Israel petition that
circulated around campus in 2002. Mr. Bollinger described the petition,
which called on Columbia to divest its holdings from companies that
sell military hardware to Israel, "grotesque and offensive."

Mr. Bollinger, in a speech he delivered March 23 before the
Association of the Bar of the City of New York, said Columbia would not
"punish professors or students for the speech or ideas they express as
part of public debate about public issues." He also said the university
"should not elevate our autonomy as individual faculty above all other
values" or accept "transgressions" among faculty members "without
consequences."

Mr. Massad, in the statement on the Web site, also said he was "very
concerned" about the role of a prominent First Amendment lawyer, Floyd
Abrams, as an adviser to the committee. Mr. Abrams, Mr. Massad said, is
"publicly identified with pro-Israeli politics and activism."

The faculty committee in its report found that Mr. Massad "exceeded
commonly accepted bounds" of teaching when in the spring of 2002 he
purportedly threatened to expel one of his students, Deena Shanker,
from his classroom after she defended Israeli military action. The
incident was the one action alleged by students that the committee
found to constitute intimidation. In his statement, Mr. Massad
vehemently denied that the incident took place.